“…but my favorite piece of the literary essays is Keith Taylor’s beautiful Old Criticism essay on Ernest Hemingway’s prose…”
– Larry McMurtry, reviewing A New Literary History of America in The New York Review of Books
Poet and writer Keith Taylor is the author, editor, or translator of 20 books. He is the A.L. Becker Collegiate Lecturer in English, Emeritus, at the University of Michigan.
Forthcoming:
- All the Time You Want: Selected Poems, 1977–2017 will be published on January 23, 2024 by Dzanc Books
- What Can the Matter Be? will be published by Wayne State University Press in Fall 2024
Recent publications:
- Let Them Be Left, poems from Isle Royale published by Alice Greene & Co. in 2021
- Ecstatic Destinations was published by Alice Greene & Co in in 2018
- The Bird-while, was published by Wayne State University Press in 2017
Keith's work has appeared in such publications as Story, The Los Angeles Times, Alternative Press, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, The Iowa Review, Witness, Chicago Tribune, and Hanging Loose. Other books are Marginalia for a Natural History published by Black Lawrence Press, and Ghost Writers, a collection of ghost stories co-edited with Laura Kasischke, published by Wayne State University Press.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
7 pm
Poetry Reading
crosshatch.org
BOS Winery | 135 Ames Street | Elk Rapids, Michigan
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
2–4:30 pm
Poetry Writing Workshop
crosshatch.org
Happy Camper Co. | 212 River Street | Elk Rapids, Michigan
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
6:30 pm
Poetry Reading from All the Time You Want Selected Poems
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
6:30 pm
Poetry Reading from All the Time You Want Selected Poems
Schuler Books
West Bloomfield, Michigan
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